Justin Fay <johnplayerb...@gmail.com> added the comment:
>From looking at the code for this (note I am not a C programmer so may have
>gotten this wrong) _PyTime_FromObject first checks if the object is a float
>using PyFloat_Check(obj) this is evident as passing nan to time.sleep raises a
>ValueError with the message "Invalid value NaN (not a number)". However if the
>object is not a float it next assumes the only valid value to be an integer,
>this logic appears fine to me. The problem however is if the object is not an
>integer the code raises the error with the message that an integer is
>required, it is unaware that a before this branch of the code executes a float
>would have been an accepted value. In python I imagine the fix for this would
>be along the lines
try:
float(obj)
except (TypeError, ValueError):
try:
int(obj):
except (TypeError, ValueError):
raise TypeError('an float or integer is required')
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